{{Short description|Swedish composer and musician}} thumb| '''Carl Gustaf Mauritz Nilsson''', known professionally as '''Charles Redland''' (July 7, 1911 – August 18, 1994) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.<ref>{{cite news|language=sv |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/teater/charles-redland-har-avlidit/ |title=Charles Redland har avlidit |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|date=August 19, 1994 |accessdate=February 19, 2019}}</ref>
Born in Södertälje, the son of a musician, Redland learned several instruments when he was young. In the 1930s he was a member of bands in which he played alto saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. During that decade he also worked as a leader. On clarinet he recorded with Benny Carter in Sweden in 1936.<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book |last1=Kjellberg |first1=Erik |editor1-last=Kernfeld |editor1-first=Barry |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |page=384|volume=3 |edition=2 }}</ref> He composed and arranged jazz and popular music.<ref name="New Grove" /> He also composed for more than 80 films, as well as for radio and TV programs.<ref>{{cite news|language=sv |url=http://orkesterjournalen.com/wordpress/?p=1080 |title=Redland, Charles |newspaper=Orkester Journalen|date=April 20, 2010 |accessdate=February 19, 2019}}</ref> He died in Stockholm.
==Filmography== {{incomplete list|date=June 2022}} * ''The Song to Her'' (1934) * ''A Girl for Me'' (1943) * ''Eaglets'' (1944) * ''Stopp! Tänk på något annat'' (1944) (with others) * ''The Wedding on Solö'' (1946) * ''Carnival Evening'' (1948) * ''Robinson in Roslagen'' (1948) * ''The Devil and the Smalander'' (1949) * ''Big Lasse of Delsbo'' (1949) * ''Kalle Karlsson of Jularbo'' (1952) * ''Ursula, the Girl from the Finnish Forests'' (1953) * ''Dance in the Smoke'' (1954) * ''People of the Finnish Forests'' (1955) * ''Stage Entrance'' (1956) * ''Seventeen Years Old'' (1957) * ''Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously'' (1957) * ''Blonde in Bondage'' (1957) * ''The Jazz Boy'' (1958) * ''A Goat in the Garden'' (1958) * ''A Lion in Town'' (1959) * ''Heaven and Pancake'' (1959) * ''The Children of Bullerbyn Village'' (1960) * ''Sten Stensson Returns'' (1963) * ''Andersson's Kalle'' (1972) * ''Andersson's Kalle on Top Form'' (1973)
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